Hong Kong’s PCCW Global has been granted international MEF CE 2.0 certification for global services that cross continental boundaries, and has become the first carrier to certify its 10 Gigabit Ethernet network service. It means that the company has gained certification for all eight Carrier Ethernet service types.
Also, a number of PCCW Global’s technical experts have been accredited with the latest MEF-CECP 2.0 certification from the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), the global defining body for Carrier Ethernet.
“Ethernet is becoming the technology of choice for many enterprises looking to extend LANs internationally without the hassle and cost of investing in multiple interface types at the customer premise,” said Jordick Wong, PCCW Global’s senior vice president of product and vendor management. “We are enriching our Ethernet offering to customers globally by providing them with a fully-managed carrier-class solution. It is essential that PCCW Global continuously upgrades its service standards and ability to support the latest voice, data and video applications worldwide.”
MEF CE 2.0 has broadened the scope of CE 1.0 by adding standardized class-of-service management definitions, multi-site connectivity and inter-carrier services. In addition, CE 2.0 has introduced standardized Carrier Ethernet service management capabilities. These new standards enable carriers to streamline the establishment of external network-to-network interconnections, while improving service coverage, administration and fault management across large geographies. Other improvements include optimization of global services and the ability to offer scalability with consistent and predictable performance.
The 10GE standard is fully interoperable with existing Ethernet protocols. As demand for speed increases, cost-effective 10GE technology can be deployed within existing networks to support high-speed, low-latency requirements. This provides wholesale and retail customers with a number of key operational benefits such as lower switch or router set-up costs, a full bandwidth advantage when carrying bursty traffic to ensure quality of service, and bandwidth headroom for traffic diversity and rerouting.
